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SoBaKi  Posts: 487
Registered: 2002-2-26 09:31:13
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People who pray must think god sucks... |
Yukishiro1 posted:
SoBaKi posted:
This would be an especially honorable position to take except for the fact that most religious folks love to legislate their beliefs for EVERYONE else.
I hardly think religious people have a monopoly on legislating their views on others. Why not focus on the legislating your views on others bit and not the religious bit?
You believe making abortion legal is the same as making it illegal? I ask because my position is that abortion should be legal which would result in someone who wants an abortion can get one. Alternatively, someone who doesn't want an abortion, doesn't have to get one.
On the other hand, making abortion illegal means no one can get an abortion.
Are you sure the legislation that supports my position isn't better than legislation that doesn't?
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Yukishiro1  Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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What's that got to do with religion? Conceivably there could be a religion that said abortion was ok and a secular person who thought it wasn't ok and wanted to ban it completely.
If your complaint is about legislating views on others why not complain about that instead of complaining about religion? Because when you complain about religion in general you just alienate a lot of people who you don't need to alienate and who probably actually agree with you.
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Scarne Title: Capo di Scientifico
Posts: 1,087
Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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Rosaria posted:
I am personally familiar with both Shintoism and Buddhism. The fundamental athiests make no distinctions between religions, all of the billions of adherents are somehow lesser than they are. Doesn't make any difference to me one way or the other but it does to them, which is comical.
Some atheists just don't like anything supernatural being taken seriously. Shintoism certainly has plenty of supernatural elements. Many (I'm not sure if all) sects of Buddhism have supernatural elements such as karma and reincarnation. There are almost no religions which are completely free of supernatural elements so they are all the same to that style of atheist. 
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Manegarm Title: European Imperialist Good Guy
Posts: 1,964
Registered: 2003-8-11 10:01:52
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Rosaria posted:
That's what I said, you're a trust fund baby talking about other people using crutches. Its like you referring to all Americans as fat yet Sweden had to institute a rigorous campaign to combat the greatly increasing number of Swedes who are obese. Or you mockingly point to the high crime rate in the US yet according to Interpol Sweden has a high crime rate compared to other industrialized countries. Your life is just as insulated as your country. You see what you choose to see. Of course you think life is perfect there and you have all the answers - you get money for breathing.
How is this even relevant to the discussion at hand? I said religion and poverty goes hand in hand and you went of on this agitated bitter tirade about my finances and things that has no meaning in this debate, fact remains poverty and religion goes hand in hand and you guys have an overabundance of both.
Snarf_Igraine posted:
mammogram doesnt have a crutch!!
I know you want others to be as weak and in need of help to cope with living.
I myself have taken E upon occasion to make techno concerts that much more awesome, however last time I indulged was 3 years ago, you probably poison your little mind with the good book on a weekly basis.
As of alcohol last time I had a drink was 2 weeks ago, I drink if anything moderately.
It's funny how religious people need to pull everyone else down to justify their lack of strength.
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__Bonk__  Posts: 5,122
Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
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Funny how some people cant stand that others believe differently than they do.
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Manegarm Title: European Imperialist Good Guy
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Registered: 2003-8-11 10:01:52
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__Bonk__ posted:
Funny how some people cant stand that others believe differently than they do.
Funny how we can have a debate about anything on the Outpost and not get into this kind of argument except with religion.
This is a forum of debate if people do not like having their values questioned I suggest they scamper off elsewhere.
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Rosaria Title: They call me Mellow Yellow, quite rightly.
Posts: 477
Registered: 2003-8-22 10:07:30
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Manegarm posted:
Rosaria posted:
That's what I said, you're a trust fund baby talking about other people using crutches. Its like you referring to all Americans as fat yet Sweden had to institute a rigorous campaign to combat the greatly increasing number of Swedes who are obese. Or you mockingly point to the high crime rate in the US yet according to Interpol Sweden has a high crime rate compared to other industrialized countries. Your life is just as insulated as your country. You see what you choose to see. Of course you think life is perfect there and you have all the answers - you get money for breathing.
How is this even relevant to the discussion at hand? I said religion and poverty goes hand in hand and you went of on this agitated bitter tirade about my finances and things that has no meaning in this debate, fact remains poverty and religion goes hand in hand and you guys have an overabundance of both.
I am stating that you have your crutches as do other people. You crystallize your world view from a position of great comfort and security and in the process have denied unquestionable realities about even where you live.
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reesescups Title: //Captain America
Posts: 2,537
Registered: 2003-5-26 14:45:53
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Manegarm posted:
This is a forum of debate if people do not like having their values questioned I suggest they scamper off elsewhere.
Questioned, mocked, ridiculed, supported, cheered... This is the Outpost...
People that get butthurt about their flavor of the month religious beliefs being mocked (on the outpost of all places) are simply weak minded and have very little faith in their own beliefs.
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Rosaria Title: They call me Mellow Yellow, quite rightly.
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Registered: 2003-8-22 10:07:30
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Scarne posted:
Rosaria posted:
I am personally familiar with both Shintoism and Buddhism. The fundamental athiests make no distinctions between religions, all of the billions of adherents are somehow lesser than they are. Doesn't make any difference to me one way or the other but it does to them, which is comical.
Some atheists just don't like anything supernatural being taken seriously. Shintoism certainly has plenty of supernatural elements. Many (I'm not sure if all) sects of Buddhism have supernatural elements such as karma and reincarnation. There are almost no religions which are completely free of supernatural elements so they are all the same to that style of atheist.
Why would it possibly matter what those atheists like or don't like?
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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The government has replaced God in a lot of ways for what people turn to when they seek things like justice and morality.
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